Hi Miki, I don't know if this will work but why not try to scan a pic of the fabric and cut out one of the pics from the scan, place it on your work and see if it is the size you want?

Jacqui

You are very welcome sweetheart, I hope it works :):)

Your quilt is looking great already :):)

Hi ladies,

Just wanted to post a quick note to let you all know that Jess and Sammy are down with a stomach virus today. YUCKY!!!!

Hope they are both feeling better tomorrow. :)

Connie

you 2 get to feeling better SOON!!!!!

especially with your trip just days away!

Jess and Sammy

Get well soon - only a another couple of days and you'll be on yr trip.

Milica

Jami

Can you tell me what fabric it is?

Jami-

Sounds like this is one of those times where "design opportunity" comes into play. Okay, so you got lemons (not enough fabric), let's see if we can help you make lemonade. Put on your thinking caps ladies, we need to think outside the box.

How about cutting strips from your different fabrics as wide as you would need for binding. You could cut them all the same length, but by cutting varying lengths, you could cut to better advantage since you have limited fabric available. Stitch them end to end until you have a strip long enough for binding. You know, you wouldn't even need to do all four sides with the same treatment. If you had, say enough of the black to do two sides adjacent sides and did the other two  with pieced strip binding, it would give your quilt an unexpected element of whimsey.

Can you tell I am from the generation that learned "use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without" at my mother's knee? LOL It doesn't help that I have that Scot-Irish mentality, either! Frugel was my grandmother's mantra! LOL

Jami if it were mine, I think I would use the floral to make an L shaped continuous border around the bottom left corner of your quilt. That way you get the impact from a large piece of that focus fabric.  Then piece the other fabrics around the rest of the left side, part of the top, the rest of the bottom, and part of the right side. Then I would do another continuous border of the dark circle fabric to finish off the upper right corner.

Connie

Jami -

Sorry I did not respond before!! Hmmm... well, I will have to think on this and see if I can put it into words. I really just layed my pieces out by the center convergence and cut them where I wanted them... Wait, I think I sketched it out first. I will have to look for that stuff tomorrow and let you know. I still don't have the border sewn on, but I will give it another go soon.

More to come.... you can thank me for being no help at all later.... grin.

Well, It took me a LONG time to finally figure out what I wanted to do here...I took advantage of "lots of minds" at a quilt retreat this past week. Even then, it really just gave me the courage to just cut into the fabrics I had left and finish the little top.

I like how it finished out, and my plan is to alternate the bindings so on the black circle print I have the floral for binding and using the black circle print on the large floral print. We'll see how that goes!!

Jami

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Jami

That is really so pretty - well done for finishing, sometimes you just need that extra time before deciding don't you.